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Feng Shan Ho
Passed away Sep 28, 1997

Feng Shan Ho 🇨🇳 (何鳳山)

Chinese Consul General in Vienna known as the 'Chinese Schindler' who issued thousands of visas to Austrian Jews, saving them from the Holocaust against orders.

Yiyang, China 39 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Ho Feng-Shan
Passed away 28 September 1997

Ho Feng-Shan 🇨🇳 (何鳳山 (He Fengshan))

Dr. Ho Feng-Shan was a Chinese diplomat who served as Consul-General of the Republic of China in Vienna from 1938 to 1940. In direct defiance of his ambassador's orders, Ho issued thousands of life-saving visas to Austrian Jews desperate to escape Nazi persecution following the Anschluss and Kristallnacht, allowing them to flee Europe to Shanghai and other destinations.

Yiyang, Hunan, China 45 views 🕯️ 1,390 candles
Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
Passed away 5 September 1997

Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) 🇹🇷 (Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Devoting her life to serving the 'poorest of the poor' in the slums of Calcutta, she established hospices for the destitute and dying, leprosy clinics, and orphanages worldwide, receiving the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and canonization as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India 41 views 🕯️ 2,250 candles
Lucille Teasdale-Corti
Passed away Aug 01, 1996

Lucille Teasdale-Corti 🇨🇦 (Lucille Teasdale)

Chirurgienne canadienne héroïque, cofondatrice avec son mari de l'hôpital Lacor en Ouganda, soignant les blessés sous les guerres civiles et le SIDA au péril de sa vie.

Gulu, Uganda 34 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Jonas Edward Salk
Passed away Jun 23, 1995

Jonas Edward Salk 🇺🇸 (Jonas Salk)

Médecin et virologue américain, inventeur du premier vaccin sûr et efficace contre la poliomyélite, dont il refusa de breveter la formule pour le bien de l'humanité.

San Diego, California, United States 40 views 🕯️ 0 candles
James Pineo Grant
Passed away Jan 28, 1995

James Pineo Grant 🇨🇳 (James P. Grant)

Directeur exécutif de l'UNICEF (1980-1995), père de la « Révolution pour la survie de l'enfant » qui sauva environ 25 millions d'enfants grâce aux vaccins et à la réhydratation orale.

Valhalla, New York, United States 33 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Linus Carl Pauling
Passed away Aug 19, 1994

Linus Carl Pauling 🇺🇸 (Linus Pauling)

Chimiste d'exception et ardent militant pacifiste, seule personne de l'histoire à avoir remporté deux prix Nobel non partagés (Chimie 1954, Paix 1962).

Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States 32 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Mbaye Diagne
Passed away May 31, 1994

Mbaye Diagne 🇸🇳 (Mbaye Diagne)

Senegalese army captain and UN peacekeeper who unarmed rescued an estimated six hundred to one thousand Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Dakar, Senegal 35 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Mahfoud Boucebci
Passed away Jun 15, 1993

Mahfoud Boucebci 🇩🇿 (محفوظ بوسبسي)

Pioneering psychiatrist and humanitarian who founded pediatric psychiatry in Algeria, campaigned for abandoned children and mothers, and was murdered outside his hospital clinic in 1993.

Algiers, Algeria 11 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Albert Bruce Sabin
Passed away Mar 03, 1993

Albert Bruce Sabin 🇵🇱 (Albert Bruce Saperstein)

Médecin et virologue américain d'origine polonaise, inventeur du vaccin oral contre la polio (gouttes sur sucre), qu'il offrit sans brevet à la Terre entière.

Arlington, Virginia, United States 34 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Helen Joseph
Passed away Dec 25, 1992

Helen Joseph 🇬🇧 (Helen Beatrice May Fennell)

Courageous anti-apartheid leader who co-organized the 1956 Women's March and became the first person in South Africa placed under strict house arrest by the apartheid regime.

Johannesburg, South Africa 38 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Giorgio Perlasca
Passed away 15 August 1992

Giorgio Perlasca 🇮🇹 (Giorgio Perlasca)

Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman who, trapped in Budapest during the winter of 1944–1945, posed as the Spanish consul-general to rescue more than 5,200 Hungarian Jews from the Arrow Cross death squads and Nazi extermination camps. He invented safe-conduct passes, hid families in Spanish-protected safe houses, and physically dragged Jews off cattle trains bound for Auschwitz.

Padua, Veneto, Italy 33 views 🕯️ 1,350 candles
Menachem Begin
Passed away Mar 09, 1992

Menachem Begin 🇧🇾 (מנחם בגין)

Premier ministre d'Israël, signataire des accords historiques de paix de Camp David avec l'Égypte et prix Nobel de la paix 1978.

Jerusalem, Israel 38 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Alfonso García Robles
Passed away Sep 02, 1991

Alfonso García Robles 🇲🇽 (Alfonso García Robles)

Diplomate mexicain, père du Traité de Tlatelolco créant la première zone dénucléarisée d'Amérique latine, Nobel de la paix 1982.

Mexico City, Mexico 40 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Lotta Hitschmanova
Passed away Aug 01, 1990

Lotta Hitschmanova 🇦🇹 (Lotta Hitschmanová)

Réfugiée tchécoslovaque devenue héroïne humanitaire au Canada, fondatrice de l'USC Canada secourant les orphelins et rescapés de guerre dans le monde entier.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 38 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Ralph David Abernathy Sr.
Passed away Apr 17, 1990

Ralph David Abernathy Sr. 🇺🇸 (Ralph Abernathy)

Compagnon de lutte inséparable de Martin Luther King Jr., cofondateur et président de la SCLC, bâtisseur de la Cité de la Résurrection lors de la Poor People's Campaign de 1968.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States 38 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Horace Gundry Alexander
Passed away Sep 30, 1989

Horace Gundry Alexander 🇬🇧 (Horace Alexander)

Universitaire et ornithologue quaker britannique, médiateur discret et intime de Gandhi entre les indépendantistes indiens et le gouvernement britannique.

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States 42 views 🕯️ 0 candles
Colin W. Bell
Passed away Apr 18, 1988

Colin W. Bell 🇬🇧 (Colin Bell)

Dirigeant humanitaire quaker anglo-américain, directeur de la Friends Ambulance Unit en Chine et secrétaire exécutif de l'AFSC pendant la guerre froide.

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States 37 views 🕯️ 0 candles
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